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captioning sponsored by cbs y ♪ ce officers fired. >> o'donnell: breaking news tonight, four police officers fired. shocking video shows a white officer kneeling on the neck of a black man for several minutes. >> i can't breathe. >> o'donnell: the man dies in custody, and now the f.b.i. is investigating. tonight, protests forming in minnesota. the u.s. death toll nearing 100,000 on hopes of a new vaccine and economic recovery, the stock market rallies. trading returned to the new york stock exchange but with temperature checks, no hand shakes, and fewer workers. we'll tell you which states are seeing cases rise. and apple makes a major announcement. confrontation in central park. the video that has sparked a national conversation. a white woman calls 911 after a
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black man asks her to leash her dog. armed and dangerous, an urgent manhunt in multiple states. police and federal agents are looking for a college senior suspected of at least two murders and a kidnapping. his family pleads tonight that he turn himself in. t-minus one day on the eve of an historic launch. we speak exclusively to elon musk, the entrepreneur at the center of the first launch of american astronauts from u.s. soil in nearly a decade. but will the forecast scrub the mission? plus the astounding number of americans who answered steve hartman's bugle call to duty on memorial day. this is the "cbs evening news" with norah o'donnell, reporting from the nation's capital. >> o'donnell: good evening. thank you for joining us. we'll get to the rising death toll from coronavirus in just a moment, but there is breaking news tonight in the shocking
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case of an unarmed african american man who died after being handcuffed and then pinned to the ground by minneapolis police. four officers have been fired tonight, and the f.b.i. is igvestigating after cell phone video showed one of the officers with his knee on george floyd's neck for at least seven minutes. even after floyd's body went limp. limp. tonight protesters are gathering outside of the restaurant where it all happened just a week after minnesota lifted its stay- at-home orders. the incident comes as much of the country is grappling with the fallout of a memorial day reopening that saw many americans not socially distancing. and at least 27 states are seeing increases in cases of covid-19. and as we come on the air, the country is approaching 100,000 deaths from the virus. tonight nearly 99,000 people have been killed here in the u.s. and there are close to 1.7 million cases nationwide. there is a lot of news to get to tonight. we have a team of correspondents
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standing by. cbs's jeff pegues is going to tsad off our coverage tonight standing by. from minneapolis. jeff? >> reporter: norah, there is a growing crowd of protesters here around me, several hundred people, and they have gathered around the bus stop where george floyd's arrest was caught on cell phone video. now, police say that he was stsisting arrest, but there is new video tonight raising questions about that. this video obtained by cbs news shows what appears to be the start of the confrontation between george floyd and minneapolis police officers. ffe video from a restaurant security camera shows officers taking him into custody, but the restaurant's owner says it does not show floyd resisting arrest. >> from what i saw, it didn't look like he was resisting at all. >> reporter: moments later in a cell phone video, floyd is heard pleading for air. >> please! i can't breathe. >> reporter: four police officers were responding to a call about counterfeiting on monday evening.
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floyd is pinned to the ground by a white officer with his knee at the back of his neck. people gathered in the crowd plead with the officers to ease up. >> you don't need no knee on his neck, bro. >> he can't breathe, bro. >> reporter: about four and a half minutes after the video starts, floyd appears artionless. >> did they kill him? >> reporter: but the officer doesn't remove his knee until floyd's apparently listless body was rolled onto a stretcher. he was pronounced dead later at a hospital. at the scene of the incident, demonstrators gather for what they call an "i can't breathe" protest. that is eerily reminiscent of the 2014 choke hold death of eric garner after new york city police officers tried to arrest him for illegally selling cigarettes. and it comes nearly three weeks after ahmaud arbery's death in georgia captured national attention. three white men are charged with killing him after suspecting that he was a burglary suspect. >> being black in america should
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not be a death sentence. >> reporter: today minneapolis mayor jacob frye apologized to the city's african american community. li when you hear someone calling for help, you are supposed to help. this officer failed in the most basic human sense. >> reporter: minneapolis police say that the officers involved were wearing body cameras and that those cameras were activated. so that vide could fill in some gaps, but these protesters out here, they believe they've seen enough. they have been chanting that they want the officers prosecuted. norah? >> o'donnell: all right, jeff pegues in minneapolis tonight. jeff, thank you. we want to turn now to the coronavirus. more than half of the states are seeing upticks in new cases, yet tonight every state is reopening segments of its economy. that includes new york and california where salons and barbershops just got the okay to reopen in most counties. cbs's meg oliver reports tonight from the one-time epicenter of
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the virus, new rochelle, new york. meg? >> reporter: norah, it was 76 days ago today the national guard moved into new rochelle to n the outbreak. the outbreak. today main street started to slowly reopen, and on wall street, traders were allowed back on the floor for the first time since march. >> good to see you, guys. >> reporter: shortly after new york governor andrew cuomo rang the opening bell -- [bell tolls]. -- stocks surged to their highest levels in nearly three months, fueled by states slowly reopening their economies and developments of potential vaccines. >> we're going to turn the page on covid-19, and we're going to start focusing on reopening and how we reopen and how smart we are in reopening. >> reporter: today traders returned to the floor, but with restrictions, including mandatory masks and temperature checks. asoast, ndsmorial day weekend,
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unofficial start of summer. in missouri, health officials are now asking these party-goers at the lake of the ozarks to self-quarantine for two weeks. >> thank god we're at this point. >> reporter: here in new rochelle, new york, the first phase of reopening began, including construction, manufacturing, and retail, allowing curbside pick-up. lou vaccaro owns the curtain shop. >> today is a great day. we've been waiting for this for i guess a couple months now. >> reporter: across the country, at least 27 states are seeing an increase in the average number of new cases compared to two weeks ago. minnesota, which partially reopened may 10th, reported its highest number of i.c.u. patients on monday. in alabama, where the stay-at- home order was lifted nearly a month ago, cases and deaths in montgomery county have doubled over the last two weeks. >> i don't think that it helps to ease restrictions in the
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state of alabama, because i believe that also led to a false sense of security that this was over. >> reporter: the outbreak isn't over in los angeles county, either, where they just recorded their highest number of new cases in a day. dodger stadium now serves as the county's largest testing site. meanwhile, sports leagues are announcing their return. the national hockey league says they will resume play this summer. and a big announcement from apple, they plan to reopen almost half of their u.s. stores by the end of the week. face coverings and temperature checks will be required at the door. norah. >> o'donnell: a sign of the changing times. meg oliver, thank you. president trump is hailing today's stock market jump, using it to talk up the economy and press states to quickly reopen. but as the u.s. approaches 100,000 covid deaths, the president's democratic opponent is offering a new pointed attack on mr. trump's leadership during this crisis. ben tracy reports tonight from the white house.
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>> reporter: it was a stark contrast on memorial day, wiesident trump without a mask. his november opponent, former vice president joe biden, wearing one. the president then retweeted someone making fun of how biden looked. today the president seemed confused as to when you're supposed to wear a mask. >> biden can wear a mask, but he was standing outside with his wife, perfect condition, perfect weather. inside, they donthey don't wear masks. so i thought it was very unusual that he had one on. >> reporter: the former vice president hit back this afternoon. >> he's a fool. an absolute fool to talk that way. i mean, every doctor in the world is saying you should wear a mask when you're in a crowd. >> reporter: meanwhile, president trump continues his long-running feud with msnbc host joe scarborough, tweeting six times about a debunked conspiracy theory that the former republican congressman killed one of his young staff members, lori klausutis in 2001. >> it's very suspicious. i hope someone gets to the
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bottom of it. >> whether it's the president or people following the president, it is unspeakably cruel. >> reporter: her husband timothy sent a letter to twitter asking them to delete the president's tweet. he wrote, "the president of the united states has taken something that does not belong to him, the memory of my dead wife, and perverted it for perceived political gains." twitter apologized for his loss but said it won't remove the president's tweets. twitter is not removing the buesident's tweets, but for the first time it is fact checking him. in two recent tweets, the president has falsely claimed that mail-in ballots are fraudulent. the site now links to information showing that the president's claims are unsubstantiated. now, all of this has now, all of this has overshadowed what the white house wanted their big announcement to be today, and that is that insulin costs for seniors are now being capped at $35 a month. norah? >> o'donnell: ben tracy at the white house tonight. thank you. tonight a multistate manhunt is
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intensifying for a university of connecticut senior, accused of killing two men and taking off in a stolen car. here's errol barnett. >> reporter: pennsylvania state police say 23-year-old peter manfredonia is armed and dangerous. the university of connecticut senior was last seen sunday after getting out of a ride share in east strasbourg, pennsylvania, and walking along train tracks carrying a duffel bag police say is filled with stolen guns. >> we want to hear from you. please. call 911. let us know where you are. >> reporter: manfredonia is suspected of two murders in connecticut over the weekend. authorities allege his killing spree began friday when he attacked 62-year-old theodore de merodes with a machete or sword. culice believe manfredonia then where he allegedly killed an acquaintance of his, 23-year-old nicholas eiselle, kidnapping his girlfriend in her own car.
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we spoke with a man who shared this house with the couple. >> the kid is still at large. if he does something to somebody else, i'm really going to feel bad that i didn't call police. >> reporter: the f.b.i. has joined in the manhunt which now spans three states. manfredonia grew up in newtown, connecticut, and his parents say through an attorney he dealt with anxiety and depression for years. they too are urging him to turn himself in. norah? >> o'donnell: errol barnett, thank you. we are less than 24 hours from a series of firsts for america's space program. the first manned orbital mission in nearly a decade, and the first using a privately owned and operated spacecraft. but it all depends on the weather. cbs's mark strassmann reports tonight from the kennedy space center in florida. >> reporter: tomorrow's launch forecast, improving, for spacex and its falcon 9 rocket, there is a 60% chance the weather on the launchpad will cooperate for a moment in space history. along the u.s. eastern seaboard, seas are calm.
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that's important. >> the launch is initiated inch >> reporter: in a launch crisis, the spacex capsule was ditched to safety in the atlantic ocean. >> you genuinely believe if something goes wrong, you have options? >> absolutely, yep. >> reporter: nasa astronauts bob behnken and doug hurley have both flown twice before to the international space station. they are more than crewmates. they are best friends. >> i have to believe that's a help. >> we're way past the polite stage in our relationship. >> reporter: the space agency hired the start-up to design and build a new generation of spacecraft. for starters, the falcon nine is reusable, that revolutionized rocketry by slashing costs. astronauts will climb into a crew capsule with a retro look outside. but with all the technology inside, crew dragon has been compared to a flying iphone. what does this moment mean to you? >> this is the actually the culmination of a dream. >> reporter: we spoke this afternoon with spacex founder
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elon musk and nasa administrator jim breidenstein. >> cool as a cucumber, nerves of steel. >> i sent them a text. i said, if there is anything you want me to do to stop, this i'll stop it in a heartbeat. both of them said, we're go for launch. >> they're brave. >> reporter: musk also told me that early on he gave his fledgling spacex company less than a 1% chance of succeeding. it's now poised to make space history. and now, of course, the astronauts, once they launch, they're supposed to spend at least six weeks up in the space station, but for now everyone is concerned the launch goes safely. norah. >> o'donnell: mark, thank you. mark will join me tomorrow for live coverage of the spacex crew dragon launch. we'll come on the air at 4:20 eastern time. hope you'll join us. there's still much more news ahead on tonight's "cbs evening news." a woman calls police falsely saying an african american man is threatening her. what happened to her and her dog
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>> o'donnell: cbs's steve hartman asked you to help honor america's fallen on memorial day. we were blown away by the response. here's a special "on the road." >> reporter: chris siegenthaler is about to perform for no one in particular. >> you hope they hear the song. pause for hey pause for a minute and understand the message that you're trying to send. >> reporter: and chris wasn't alone. in the next town over, across the country, and around the the country, and around the world, buglers and trumpet players joined together to play taps yesterday for what turned ont to be one of the largest musical tributes of all time. tens of thousands of soloists ul playing in unison. [♪ "taps" playing ].
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this was my idea, but not mine alone. last week i reached out to a guy named jari villanueva. i explained my vision. and as i did, i could almost feel him smiling on the other end of the line. >> great minds think alike. >> reporter: like me, jari knew "taps" would be the perfect song. >> it's not only a military call, but also a call that reassures us. >> reporter: so together we promoted ""taps" across america." the response was breathtaking. from the mountains, to the prairies, to every elevation in between, people from all walks of life walked outside to play in parking lots and national parks, beside lakes and rivers and oceans. the musicians were some of the best, like ethan bensdorf with the new york philharmonic, and
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some of the greenest, like nine- year-old caitlyn sanders from ellicott city, maryland, who spent all weekend learning. but no matter what the skill level, no matter what the stage, setting, or instrument, the mood and message echoed just the same. that we are a country of patriots. do you think maybe we stumbled onto something here and maybe this will go on year after year? >> having something like this will continue for every memorial day. i really hope so. >> reporter: and i hope so too. and on that note, i'm steve hartman, cbs news, on the road. >> o'donnell: and i hope so, too. proof again we live in the greatest country in the world. we'll be right back. extremely sad eeling
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